Inside Mumbai civic – BJP flags BMC elections 2026: Inside Mumbai’s civic giant whose budget is bigger than many Indian states The ruling Mahayuti is set to secure the mayor’s post in the 81-member Nanded Waghala Municipal Corporation, where counting of votes is underway from 10 am on Friday. The BJP has won 40 civic wards and is leading in five others, while its ally Eknath Shinde-led Shiv Sena has won one seat and is leading in six others.

Ajit Pawar’s Nationalist Congress Party has won seven seats, while the Congress and its allies have secured six wards and are leading in four others. Four candidates of Asaduddin Owaisi-led AIMIM have also emerged victorious. Voting for the Nanded Waghala Municipal Corporation took place on Thursday along with elections for 28 other municipal bodies across Maharashtra.

The BJP is also set to secure the mayoral post in Mumbai’s Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC), where, along with Shiv Sena, it is on track to register its biggest win so far. For 27 years, the BMC was controlled by an undivided Shiv Sena, until in 2022 the party split into factions led by Eknath Shinde and former Maharashtra chief minister Uddhav Thackeray, whose father Bal Thackeray had founded the party in 1966.

BMC is the richest municipal corporation in India and one of the wealthiest in Asia, with an annual budget of Rs 74,400 crore for 2026–27.